Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Real life | 28 July 2016

Free pizza and desperate, starving people are a dangerous combination

issue 30 July 2016

The colourful banners at the Eurotunnel terminal at Calais spell out the words Treat Shop Relax Refresh Eat. But it would be more truthful if they said Queue Panic Scream Scavenge Fight to the Death.

For reasons best known to the French authorities, there is only one restaurant inside the Eurotunnel building at Calais and that is a small Burger King.

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